BBM4ALL Video Contest - Make a kick-ass BBM commercial and you could win a trip to Toronto and visit to BlackBerry HQ!

Oh, and two tickets to an NBA or NHL game, too!

OK, folks. BlackBerry's looking to spread the word about BBM on Android and iOS — and they're willing put their money where their mouth is. Ol' BB's giving away a trip for two to Toronto and Waterloo — the former for either a Toronto Raptors NBA game or a Maple Leafs NHL game. Plus, you'll jaunt on over BlackBerry HQ in Waterloo to meet up with the BBM team, as well as get a guided tour of the city.

Sound good? Want to enter? Keep on keepin' on for the rules and entry requirements.

What You Need to Do

Create a video ad showing off cross-platform BBM. You're essentially creating a TV commercial so you need to get the message across and do it well. Show BBM chats, file sharing, groups, delivery and read notifications — whatever you want. The goal is to make people want to run to BBM.com and download BBM on their device.

You can show off the actual app, a video of your friends using BBM, a funny skit ... whatever you think will make your BBM ad reign supreme.

Here's an example:

You can certainly do better than that, right?

The Details

Your video should be no longer than one minute and needs to show at least one of the following:

Creative way to tell your friends to get BBM

Show some of the key differentiators of BBM vs. WhatsApp or other IM clients as reasons why to download BBM

Show fun/creative ways to share your PIN with your friends

Other than that there are no constraints — though you will need a passport if you're not Canadian — so go nuts. We'll be looking at how well you get the message across, how good your video looks and how much awesome it's packing.

At the end of the entry period we'll be picking the one video that we think is the best of them all.

Grand Prize

One grand prize winner will receive a BBM prize pack that includes:

Round trip for two (2) to Toronto to attend a Toronto Maple Leafs OR Toronto Raptors game

A visit to BlackBerry HQ at Waterloo to meet the BBM team

A guided tour of the city with BlackBerry's Alex Kinsella

How To Enter

Create your video and then send us a link to the file (Dropbox, Box, etc) so we can download it. Submit your entries to bbmcontest@mobilenations.com before midnight PST on Nov. 30. One entry per person, please.

The competition will be tough as we're running this one on iMore and CrackBerry as well, so keep that in mind as we'll only be picking one grand-prize winner.

They figured that making their commercials for them was punishment enough. Could you imagine then having to go out and struggle to find someone to buy your "new" BB device. That's just going too far, even for BB.

Two large Android and Apple mascots dance on BBM's grave,
while a small Windows phone toady evilly cheers them on.
The two remaining stereotypical blackberry mourners are in tears.

A zombie blackberry mascot hand emerges from the grave holding a sign
that says "BUY ME; BBM ME!". Android and Apple mascots don't even notice the
last gasp and trample the zombie arm back into the earth.

First time visiting from Crackberry. This is a nice site for sure. The comments are bit a disappointing. It's just a friendly contest for anyone interested? Anyway, have a few friends on Android and it's great to converse through BBM now. Again, nice site.

Thanks. I think people are coming over here because it's linked on the BBM contest page. Most likely interested if the contest has the same set up. I've always wanted to see this site anyways. As for people saying snarky comments, I imagine all four mobile nations sites have this going on. I've never seen the point in arguing over which platform is better? Indo think the Rob Ford comments are funny. I'm from Toronto and it's been a funny week for sure.

BB10's more powerful than Android? In what regard? That comment is too subjective. Even if it were more powerful, Android is more versatile. Maybe, I'd agree with you, if Android wasn't running on as many devices as it is.

Rumor has it that a new version of the BlackBerry App Store will have Google Play integrated into it. The BB10 OS can already run Android apps, but not the Google Play Services, and you have to side load the Apps. Check this out.

I visited your link. I must say, it would be cool if the actual Play Store was compatible with BB10. Only time will tell. Honestly, it would be a great move, for Google, BlackBerry, and developers, alike.

Play Store on BB woukd be interesting. I don't know that it would make much of a difference, but I dont think it would hurt.
Still think they should dump BB10 and skin Android. They've got a toe in the water, just dive in.

Even though I wouldn't want any other op on BB10, it would be great to have Google Play Store integrated. I'm already playing Android Apps on my Z10. They run and look amazing. Can't see what would stop this from being a reality.

Blackberry needs better hardware first. The low specs can run BB10 smoothly, but not the android emulator on top without lag. The emulator is android 4.2 Maybe when it goes to 4.4 Kit Kat it will be better. But in the mean time they should give leading edge specs a shot.

Once thats good to go then they could figure out options on how to get the full android library onto the devices, with either google play or their own apk library. I dont know enough about licencing and all that to comment though. Theres websites that do it, but they might be frowned upon.

See, and this is why it boggles my mind that they went cross platform. It's not going to bring folks back to BB hardware. It DOES give BB enthusiasts one more reason to consider an iPhone or Android. They're shooting themselves in the foot here.

They're not making any money selling phones, thats why. BBM wasnt a strong enough selling point for somebody to purchase a 700$ phone. I wasn't on blackberry because of BBM, and it was never a deciding factor. This is still only true for entry level markets like the middle east. But even there is following the west with better data plans etc.

If you think about it, Blackberry as a whole is valued at about 4 billion. Thats the entire company, patents, services, enterprise, hardware etc.

Twitter was just valued at 20 billion, lets assume it will adjust back down to 10 billion once the hype is gone. With those kind of numbers BBM has the potential to be worth twice as much as the entire blackberry company just in in itself.

Granted were talking about a new type of company. The type of add revenues they can pull in is still not very clear, even for facebook and there billion users. And there isn't even a clear picture how a messenger app could ever push out ads. Other then blackberry advertising blackberry phones to IOS and android users. The trojan horse

BBM as it was though, stuck to a shrinking user base on blackberry was useless. Now it is atleast a tool to try and swing public opinion from. "I Hope blackberry dies, I hate them!" to something even marginally better lol

And I should care about BBM why? Isn't that what your phone's native email app, Skype, facebook chat, google voice and others are for? What's the big damn hype? I think this is Blackberry's last desperate effort for revenue before they go completely under

BB's giving away a trip for two to Toronto and Waterloo — the former for either a Toronto Raptors NBA game or a Maple Leafs NHL game. Plus, you'll jaunt on over BlackBerry HQ in Waterloo to meet up with the BBM team, as well as get a guided tour of the city.
Since i am a Bruins & Celtics fan the first prize sucks. But do you think the BB Team would get upset if i took pictures of the Headquarters with my Android phone?

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